Poke lands Facebook user in court

Emma Woollacott, 12th October 2009

It's got to be the laziest, most minimal form of communication possible, but apparently a Facebook poke can count as harassment.

A woman has been arrested for poking another user of Facebook, after police decided it breached a protection order. While plenty of people have been convicted of online harassment before, this is believed to be the first time that a mere poke has caused so much trouble.